BOMBS FROM.THE AIR.
AMERICAN SHIP'S DANGER.
A aimer pilot, George Sinclair, who larded at Deal, told a remarkable, story of the American petroleum steamer Cushing, which was attacked by a German airman.
The Gushing, which had been anchored off Deal, left for Rotterdam with Sinclair acting as pilot. On the following evening, when about forty miles north of the Haas lightship, a German aeroplane approached and dropped a bomb, which struck the after-rail and scattered shell all over the deck. Two other bombs were dropped, but fell into the sea. Sinclair says the airman came sufficiently low to be well within rifle range. Although there were six rifles aboard none was loaded.
Captain Herland, on reaching Rotterdam, took six pieces of shell to the American Consul, who has since sent them to the Ambassador in Berlin. The pilot took three pieccs to .Deal. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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